Ripoff Report Defeats Extortion Claim, But Plaintiffs Keep Trying–AEI v. Xcentric
…reviews that Ripoff Report will not remove plus Ripoff Report’s Corporate Advocacy Program (which offers to help businesses rehabilitate their reputation for a substantial fee) equals extortion, a predicate for…
Online Video Publisher Learns Why You Should Register Your Copyrights Early–LTVN v. Odeh
…they would have charged the defendants for use of their videos.” In other words, the defendant’s alleged ripoff won’t cost it any more than if it had taken the license…
Must-Read Empirical Study of 47 USC 230 Jurisprudence by David Ardia
…or the author takes the content down him/herself (or, in some cases, the court ordered the takedown). This brought to mind the Ripoff Report’s refusal to remove content at the…
Contributory Copyright Infringement Claim May Need Direct Infringer as a Defendant to Succeed–Miller v. Facebook
…this. The court apparently treats the case as a source code ripoff, but Yeo’s game could infringe Boomshine’s display/look-and-feel, and Yeo’s testimony isn’t critical to a look-and-feel comparison. Furthermore, in…
Crowdsourced Ads May Not Be Protected by 47 USC 230–Subway v. Quiznos
…of more recent—and more thoughtful—cases, including the multiple Ripoff Report cases that have expressly and implicitly rejected the MCW case. A more natural citation would have been the Roommates.com case,…
Forwarding Defamatory Email with Introductory Comments Protected by 47 USC 230–Phan v. Pham
…language that escaped this judicial panel). However, that’s never been the law. See, e.g., Barrett v. Rosenthal, Batzel v. Smith, D’Alonzo v. Truscello and the many Ripoff Report cases; but…
Ripoff Report Sues Blogger, Loses on Jurisdictional Grounds–Xcentric Ventures v. Bird
…of a RipOff Report Lawsuit.” As you may know, many SEOs HATE Ripoff Report because of Ripoff Report’s frustratingly high ranking in Google search results, which might be more attributable…
47 USC 230 Year-in-Review for 2009
…it for 230 protection. GW Equity v. Xcentric Ventures (N.D. Tex. Jan. 9, 2009). Ripoff Report is protected by 230 even though it offers pull-down menus and manipulates user-submitted reports….
Ripoff Report Not Bound by Takedown Injunction Against User–Blockowicz v. Williams
…plaintiffs presented to Ripoff Report and the other websites. All of the other websites complied with the takedown order, but the Ripoff Report refused. Instead, the Ripoff Report argued (among…
Website Initially Denied 230 Dismissal But Gets It on Appeal–Shiamili v. Real Estate Group
…& Benson v. Purdy (wow, this list is a blast from the past!). I’m not including the pure web hosting cases or any of the Ripoff Report cases, yet I’m…